Nokia E7 hits FCC with as much 3G support as you can handle
In our inevitable Utopian future (assuming we make it past this 2012 noise ), we'll all use one frequency for our high-speed wireless broadband across the globe. Actually, we'll probably just beam information directly between our brains and brain-like supercomputers at speeds so fast they can't be measured, and we won't need smartphones at all because they'll be installed in our bodies at birth, complete with eyeballs capable of 1080p video capture. Until then, though, we've got companies like Nokia showing some hustle to put pentaband 3G radios on the market, and the trend continues with the upcoming E7 .
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: capture, fcc, graphs, inevitable, nokia, nokia e7, nokiae7, said-as-much, upcoming
The iPhone 4: it blends
Another Apple product launch, another episode of Will it Blend? No cheating this time as far as we can tell, but the production values have certainly gone through the roof for the inevitable iPhone 4 edition and yes, just like everything else they've put in a blender, it blends.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: after-the-break, everything-else, fri, inevitable, iphone 4, production, values, will it blend
Motorola and RIM settle patent dispute with a good old cross-licensing deal
We always like to hear of companies burying the hatchet (and the lawyers with it, if at all possible), and our latest source of good vibes are two North American phone makers that have been at each other's throats over patents since early 2008 . Motorola and RIM had a previous intellectual property-sharing deal that expired at the end of '07 and with the companies unable to come to a suitable extension agreement, it all spiraled out into a big and silly legal discord
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: companies, deal, dispute, engadget, entry, extension, hatchet, inevitable, intellectual, legal, moto, property, research-in-motion, suitable
HTC Droid Incredible shows up on official Verizon preview page — coming April 29th (updated)
Official announcements be damned -- Verizon's just thrown up a "coming soon" preview page for the HTC Incredible. While we didn't necessarily need any more evidence this guy was real -- we've read its user's manual , we've spied shots of it in Verizon's system , and we've seen it in the wild enough times to sketch it quickly from memory with our eyes closed -- it's still exciting news to know that the inevitable unleashing of this beast is nearly upon us. Update: They've changed up this page already (as you can see from our updated image) -- giving us the date of April 29th
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: beast, breaking-news, exciting, inevitable, nearly-upon, our-updated, preview-page, result, verizon
webOS port of Xorg in the works, OpenOffice support the inevitable result
In the absence of a full, editable version of Documents To Go (DataViz still hasn't released it), this might be of some serious interest to the Palm community -- or those that are willing to muck around a bit, anyway. X.org's X server implementation has been successfully shoehorned onto a Pre , meaning that we're well on our way to being able to run arbitrary Linux-based X11 apps on our phones -- including the mighty OpenOffice, as demonstrated here. It seems we're still a ways off yet; the devs have some file system issues to work through, which they say will likely take "weeks to months, rather than days" to fix, but it's a promising start
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: desktop-office, editable, inevitable, linux, linux-based, result, server, ways-off-yet, x11, xorg
Facebook for webOS gets a much-needed, and much-appreciated, 1.1.0 update
After a disappointing initial effort , Palm has unleashed version 1.1.0 of its webOS Facebook app. Currently only available via the update function but not the standard App Catalog, users will find new and improved access to their inbox, all their friends' photo albums, profiles, direct photo uploading, friend search and a list view for upcoming events and birthdays
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: effort, facebook, inevitable, pal, palm pixi, palm-pre, pixiplus, pre plus, standard, update-function, video, web os 1.4, webos
Motorola China has a bunch of smartphones on tap this year
China is one of Motorola's last safe havens for Windows Mobile-powered devices , but even the Far East is falling to the inevitable onslaught of little green robots -- one need look no further than the XT701, MT710, and XT800 for evidence of that. That leads us to believe that the company's 2010 haul of smartphones for China will be primarily Android-based -- particularly in light of China Mobile's commitment to it through Open Mobile System -- expanding on comments in Korea this week by Moto's GM of the mobile devices business that there will "probably another four or five [smartphones] later" in the region following the recent announcements of the MT710 and XT800 and the upcoming launch of the XT701. Considering that China continues to be a stronghold for Moto, we're not surprised to see so much of the company's product R&D dollars go that way -- as long as the rest of the world ends up getting some trickle-down benefit, of course.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: china, china-mobile, far, inevitable, korea, mobile, moto, result